Step back into the Carboniferous period, when colossal arthropods dominated the land 345-290 million years ago. Among these ancient creatures was Arthropleura, a remarkable millipede that stretched up ...
Identified from remains found inside fossilized Carboniferous tree stumps, they were small, agile, lizard-like animals. Africa collided with eastern North America in the late Pennsylvanian ...
The find contradicts previous theories on the gigantic size of these creatures. While high atmospheric oxygen levels during ...
A captivating new species of arachnid from the late Carboniferous period is introduced ... the false belief that most of the world’s animals have already been discovered. But that’s not ...